‘Escort Boys’ producer when taking the Raunchy Comedy on ‘Darker’ Ground

After tackling gender power dynamics in the message #metoo era, Prime videos Raunchy Comedy series “Escort Boys” returns for a second season that is darker and today the world is premiered at Canneseries.

Adapted from the Israeli show “Johnny and the Knights of Galilee” (“Milk and Honey”) and directed by Ruben Alves, portrays the comedy series of half an hour of four young men who are escorts to make ends meet and save their family business in a picturesque city in the South of France.

In fact, 1 was brave to tackle timely themes such as romantic love, female sexuality and poisonous masculinity and was a hit, even luring wild bunch TV that took over international (after seasons 1 and 2), and the leading commercial channel TF1 of France who bought the rights of the second time.

Myriam Gharbi-de Vasselot at Mediawan ownership Oberkampf Productions (“Les Papillon’s Noirs”) who produced the series with Charlotte Toledano-Detal and RTL TVI, said season 2 departure from the original format. “It’s a real creation,” she says, and one who reflects Alves with Yaël Lebrati (“best you”), accompanied by Louis Pénicaut (“Le Bureau des Legendes”).

Season 2 picks up six months after the end of season 1, so that the main characters decided to stop escort to start a hotel company. “They are forced back in it because of a failed hotel company that turned into a fiasco: they were scammed and were confronted with the subsequent debt, causing them to lose their domain,” says De Vasselot, who also produced a documentary about male escorts that came up Wild Bunch TV in addition to the first two seasons of “Escort.”

“We’re going to look at the consequences and limitations of prostitution, because it is a subject that cannot be interpreted lightly and that we treat as realistic as possible,” she says, adding that the plot will deal with the “sex addiction of one of his main persons, Ludo, who is the father figure”, a woman who is beaten by her husband and Pogingen and Pogingen and Pogingena and Pogingena and Pogingena and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingenaa and Pogingen, an escort. ”

“That is the characteristic style of Ruben Alves, always oscillating between drama and laughter,” she says. Although the show will certainly be more dramatic in the second season, she says it will nevertheless have “moments of comedy, sometimes Burlesk, sometimes funny and moving, with a diverse range of customers, always played by exceptional guest stars.”

These include Josiane Balasko, Marisa Berenson (“Barry Lyndon”), Thibault de Montalembert (“Call My Agent!”), Margot Bancilhon (“Machine”), Cristiana Reali (“Camping 3”) and Afida Turner or the Keytide, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Willside, Who Wellside, Who Wellside, Who Willibside, Who Wellibside, Who Wellibside, Who. Evrard, Simon Ehrlacher, Corentin Fila and Marysole Fertard.

Prime Video will premiere the series in France on June 13, followed by Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK

The Vasselot also develops a series of internationally driven projects with various partners and talent, including Olivier Abbou with whom she previously collaborated on the Netflix Serial Killer Thriller “Les Papillon’s Noirs.” She collaborates with Nathalie Purus at Atlantique Productions, another Mediawan label, to acquire rights to a bestseller -American book whose adjustment is written by Abbou and Laura Fontaine (“Research Unit”).

She also collaborates with “Vortex” co-maker Sarah Farkas and Marjorie Bosch (“SAM”) on a Serie project in Advanced Development led by Women’s Serie project at a streamer, and “Holy Lands” Filmmaker-Screenwriter Amanda Sthers’ first series to be hired to make a fake news.